A magistrate in Australia has dismissed charges against a man fined after his goat ate flowers outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Comedian Jimbo Bazoobi, real name James Dezarnaulds, had been ordered to pay the A$440 (£293; $464) penalty for damaging vegetation last August. Police had argued that Mr Dezarnaulds acted recklessly in allowing the hungry goat, Gary, to approach the flower bed. But the magistrate said there was no evidence he had put Gary to the deed.

A one-year-old girl has had a miraculous escape after being flung from the wreckage of a car during a high-speed accident in Russia and landing in the path of an oncoming truck. The dashboard camera of a following car recorded the moment of impact, when the infant’s body was tossed into the road near Nizhny Novgorod in western Russia. Moments later, the unnamed girl was snatched from the asphalt, apparently by the driver of the car she was riding in - who had lost control of his Mitsubishi and smashed backwards into a Scania truck, tearing off the rear part of the car. The child was jettisoned several yards and lay on all fours surrounded by debris, lifting one hand to hold the side of her head. Two oncoming trucks managed to decelerate and pass within feet of her before she was rescued.

A tunnel in Northern Norway is likely to remain closed for another few weeks because of a smoldering mound of Norway’s ubiquitous sweet brown cheese, officials said Monday. The tunnel in Tysfjord, Nordland County, already has been closed for five days, since fire broke out on a truck that was transporting the cheese. The messy drama began last Thursday, when the driver of the truck noticed that his cargo of 27 tons of brown cheese being hauled on a trailer was on fire. The truck was driving south inside the 3.6-kilometer-long Brattli Tunnel at Tysfjord and the driver managed to escape the blaze. The burning trailer-truck remained parked inside the tunnel, around 300-meters from its southern entrance. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that the cheese was still burning on Monday and has caused extensive damage inside the tunnel.

A Wiltshire woman has started a Facebook craze for people to brave the Arctic weather to pose naked in the snow. Care worker Leanne Myers, 40, stripped to her undies to pose for a picture playing guitar in the snow with 25-year-old neighbour Danielle Smith. In a bid to cheer up workmates, she posted the picture on a Facebook page she set up and called: 'Wiltshire, let's get naked in the snow! '.

A video of a near miss between a bi-plane and a quad bike on an airfield runway is going viral online. It is the handy work of daredevils Those Crazy Texans, who filmed the clip during a practice run for an upcoming show. The footage shows one of the group performing a wheelie on the quad bike along an unidentified runway, reports Metro.

A professional ski jumper made a mess of his attempt when he slipped and tumbled down a slope in Sapporo, Japan. Daiki Ito - who has reportedly ranked in the top 10 at several World Cups - was unable to hold on to the bar at the top, resulting in the embarrassing fall. The incident happened last Sunday (January 20).